There Can Be No Justification For Bombing of Boston Marathon Runners

All eyes are on the horrific bombing of the Boston Marathon today. As far as we know, 2 people are dead and another 22 injured (and the numbers are likely to grow). We cannot be sure whether the blasts were acts of terrorism, but given there were two separate explosions and a third device found, it is pretty safe to say it was not an accident.

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It is far too early to speculated on who is responsible for the bombing and why they chose to attack people running the historic event (many of whom are raising money for charities). But we can say one thing for sure: There can be no justification for the deliberate attack on innocent people.

Anyone with a vague understanding of international relations and history knows the US government does some very nasty things abroad that makes the country a prime target for terrorists looking to make a political point. You could conceivably argue that an attack on a US military base, or even an appropriate government building (say the CIA - an organization responsible for an extraordinary amount of violence and terror around the world) would be justified (although in my book, acts of violence are only justified when done in self defense), but this does not and cannot excuse acts of violence against people with absolutely no official stake in anything remotely political.

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It is best we wait to uncover exactly what happened in Boston today, then look to the why. A rash response could reap even more chaos than the attack itself, as we saw after terrorists attacked America on 9/11. But make no mistake, there should be a response. The killers of innocents should never be allowed to get away with it.

Just when you thought the right-wing screeching about Benghazi was over, the Republicans have begun to blame the president for the Boston Marathon bombing. You know, because it's important to support the president when troops are in harm's way -- that is, presidents prior to January 20, 2009.

Three seconds after the bombing of the Boston marathon, and Glenn Beck took to the airwaves to talk about the need to buy gold. And it's definitely not that Goldline, the sponsors of his 'network' TheBlaze had anything to do with it

People across Boston and surrounding suburbs have been told to stay indoors amid a massive police manhunt for one of two brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings. Police are hunting Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, after he escaped a shoot-out where another suspect, his brother, died. "Stay indoors with the doors locked," the Massachusetts governor said.

Before anyone really knew anything, Jones had already birthed his first Boston Marathon conspiracy theory, thus signalling to his battalions of flying psychomonkeys to deploy throughout the internet -- rubber pants and Info Wars archive links ready to roll. According to Jones, the FBI -- like every domestic terror plot, naturally -- was probably responsible for the obvious false flag attack.